What are the responsibilities and job description for the Algorithmic Trading, Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) position at BTIG?
Job Purpose
BTIG seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our tight-knit, high-caliber engineering team. You’ll be the first dedicated SRE, responsible for the infrastructure operating our algorithmic trading systems. This is an opportunity for someone with solid infrastructure management experience but ready for more ownership—someone eager to apply their skills and be a leader in a fast-paced, high-performance environment where daily deployments and continuous iteration are the norm. Our trading systems operate in a latency-sensitive, high-throughput on-prem environment, integrating with global exchanges, market data feeds, and client order flows. You'll work closely with developers and dev ops to design and maintain systems that are highly available, scalable, and fault tolerant.
Duties & Responsibilities
BTIG is a global financial services firm specializing in institutional trading, investment banking, research and related brokerage services. With an extensive global footprint and more than 700 employees, BTIG, LLC and its affiliates operate out of 20 cities throughout the U.S., and in Europe, Asia and Australia. BTIG offers execution, expertise and insights for equities, equity derivatives, ETFs and fixed income, currency and commodities. The firm’s core capabilities include global execution, portfolio, electronic and outsource trading, investment banking, prime brokerage, capital introduction, corporate access, research and strategy, commission management and more.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. BTIG is an equal opportunity employer Minorities/Females/People with Disabilities/Protected Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.
Compensation
BTIG seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our tight-knit, high-caliber engineering team. You’ll be the first dedicated SRE, responsible for the infrastructure operating our algorithmic trading systems. This is an opportunity for someone with solid infrastructure management experience but ready for more ownership—someone eager to apply their skills and be a leader in a fast-paced, high-performance environment where daily deployments and continuous iteration are the norm. Our trading systems operate in a latency-sensitive, high-throughput on-prem environment, integrating with global exchanges, market data feeds, and client order flows. You'll work closely with developers and dev ops to design and maintain systems that are highly available, scalable, and fault tolerant.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Build and manage reliable, scalable infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code principles
- Automate operational processes — monitoring, deployment, incident response, and recovery
- Instrument and monitor systems to proactively identify and fix bottlenecks and failure points
- Participate in incident responses, and postmortems
- Drive improvements in service reliability, performance, and observability
- Collaborate with software engineers to embed reliability into application design and deployment
- Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines to support faster, safer deployments
- 3 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles
- Strong experience with both on-prem and cloud infrastructure management
- Proficiency with scripting or programming (Python, Go, Bash, etc.)
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Solid understanding of Linux internals, networking, and system performance tuning
- Deep experience with monitoring and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)
- Familiarity with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.)
- Must be authorized to work full time in the U.S., BTIG does not offer sponsorship for work visas of any type
- No phone calls please, the applicant will be contacted within two weeks if successful
BTIG is a global financial services firm specializing in institutional trading, investment banking, research and related brokerage services. With an extensive global footprint and more than 700 employees, BTIG, LLC and its affiliates operate out of 20 cities throughout the U.S., and in Europe, Asia and Australia. BTIG offers execution, expertise and insights for equities, equity derivatives, ETFs and fixed income, currency and commodities. The firm’s core capabilities include global execution, portfolio, electronic and outsource trading, investment banking, prime brokerage, capital introduction, corporate access, research and strategy, commission management and more.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. BTIG is an equal opportunity employer Minorities/Females/People with Disabilities/Protected Veterans/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.
Compensation
- BTIG offers a competitive compensation and benefits package. Salary range is based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, years of applicable experience, skills, qualifications, licensure and certifications, and other business and organization needs.
- The current estimated base salary range for this role is $150,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year. Please note that certain positions are eligible for additional forms of compensation such as discretionary bonus or overtime.
Salary : $150,000 - $200,000